A pale green jade inscribed gilt-decorated 'pine and bamboo' table screen


Mid Qing DynastyThe rectangular jade plaque gilt on one side with a gnarled pine tree with bristling pine needles and a poem, the reverse similarly painted but with bamboo and a further poetic inscription, set within a wood frame and stand carved with openwork panels. 21cm (8 1/4in) wide. (2).
|清中期 青白玉填金陰刻松竹圖硯屏Provenance: Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 178Durwin Tang Collection來源：倫敦佳士得，1994年12月5日，拍品編號178鄧德雍收藏性是白鶴孤，形乃蒼龍偃，試問如擇文，可能遺楚畹。'By nature a solitary white crane, by form a writhing dragon; when asked to write prose, perhaps I can go to Chu.' The inscription on the reverse reads:倪迂瀟灑枝，自取性情驗，鳳影將龍文，毋乃失華瞻。'Beginning as a free and young branch, cultivating its nature, the phoenix shadow over the dragon pattern, do not lose the flowery gaze'